Obscured By Clouds (studio album)
by Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd bestography
Obscured By Clouds is ranked 13th best out of 35 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 60,078.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/06/2025 05:02 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,139 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/03/2025 15:49 |  Liedzeit | 2,261 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/02/2025 17:10 | IkoIko6 | 107 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2025 20:56 |  LukasAntoine00s | 369 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 19:11 |  TimBroad04 | 203 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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I like many of the songs as songs, but they aren't working as an album for me and there are some definitely not good songs.
Didn't really like this album as a whole, but Wot's Uh The Deal is excellent and definitely in my top 5 Pink Floyd songs. Stay is nice too. The Gold It's In The... has a great guitar riff. The rest of the album is unspectacular.
teague 09/20/2021 22:20 | #274001
Yeah, this is definitely the weakest offering from 1970s Pink Floyd, by quite a margin. As it is a soundtrack, it's quite unfocused at times, jumping from hard blues rock to psychedelic soft rock within minutes of each other, some passages are splendidly hazy, others are intensely harsh. Guitar solos are on point, as always. Definitely worth a listen or two.
A good album, but since it's a soundtrack, it makes it a bit hard to get through
pjohnsongolf 12/06/2020 17:39 | #262148
The most underrated Pink Floyd album. I honestly don’t understand why people don’t love this
This is my second favourite Floyd album nowadays. I really don't get the constant dismissal of this. Never have. I think it's superb.
If you don't compare this album to Pink Floyd's much more superior other 70's material, this is a good album.
Rather underrated, and this comes from someone who is just discovering all of pre-Dark-Side PF simultaneously without any prior bias. The moment in the "Absolutely Curtains" at 2:37 when the choir suddenly bursts is pure psychedelic magic, for instance.
This is most definitely a Floyd album with one foot in the past and one in the future. Burning Bridges sounds like it came out of a Meddle session, and the opening drum pattern for Childhood's End is well established as having been inspirational (if not just copied and pasted) for Time on DSOM. It is slightly heavier than much of their output, but this works well in the context of the album, and there are plenty of gentle moments too. Overlooked, yes. A classic, no. Worthy of attention, yes.
ExTeaSea 08/12/2018 14:28 | #219609
In the amount of time they made this album they did a bang up job because it is fantastic. It's my second favorite these days under Animals. This album grew on me more than any other album I own.
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